ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,474, issued on March 11, was assigned to YUSHIN PRECISION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control system for apparatus for taking out molded product that detects collision based on torque" was invented by Sanai Kubo (Kyoto, Japan) and Fumitake Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a control system for an apparatus for taking out a molded product, the apparatus performing appropriate operation when a collision occurs while a servo system control section is manually operated. When a collision detection section outputs an operation stop command, a deviation clearing section performs clearing operat...